The ROK Navy’s 14,000-ton “light aircraft carrier” Dokdo, seen here today in Busan, is undergoing sea trials. She should be battle ready by July of next year.
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Holy crap, “light” doesn’t begin to describe this thing. It’s a floating helo-pad. Article says 199 meters but I don’t buy it. Those tugs can’t be more than 120 footers and length-to-length 4 of them match that ship. I say 160meters tops.
Anyway, at least it’s bigger than Dokdo itself.
Wouldn’t it be a tragedy if the ship itself accidently went off course one night and flattened Dokdo?
I dunno exactly how much costs that big fat boat has created, but imho it would’ve been wiser, to funnel the budget for refuelling airplanes and AWACS. The ROK is in dire need of that costly stuff. I mean, they’re not going to invade another country’s coastline soon or something like that. It would’ve been useful for the peacekeeping action in East Timor though…
That’s not exactly an aircraft carrier, unless of course the ROK Navy is planning on ordering a dozen harriers to go along with it… Rather, the ship pictured there is classified as an amphibious assault craft, and is the first ‘LP-X’ (Landing Platform Experimental) class ship.
If you’re interested in this sort of thing, you can follow this link:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/.....k/lp-x.htm
Actually, I think the ROK Navy ordered it with the intention of using it in peacekeeping and humanitarian missions, in which they seem to be getting involved in much more these days. In which case it might be a worthwhile investment.
True. In fact, the only reason I mentioned “light aircraft carrier” in quotations is because the Korean title of the Yonhap photo says exactly that—light aircraft carrier. Which was surprising, because from what I recall, the ROK Navy—out of concern about provoking its neighbors—made it an early point to shoot down talk about the ship being a carrier.
Any Aegis yet?
I know that the KDX-III destroyers are supposed to have Aegis systems on them, provided by the good people at Lockheed-Martin. Look for the first one to become operational by 2008. The LP-X, while it doesn’t have Aegis, does have a rather decent point defense system onboard.
OK, now the ROK Navy is taking the press to task for calling the ship a “light aircraft carrier.” They would like us all to know that the ship is not, the Navy repeats NOT an aircraft carrier—light, fleet or otherwise.
Why the name of the neighbouring country’s island on Korean ship? Are they Japan lovers?
As it has been known that Korea’s claim for Dokdo is nothing (please see Gerry’s blog:http://koreanlanguagenotes.blogspot.com/ ), it seems comical.
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